Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 4 avril 1859, lundi 4 avril 1859

[" Va maT V> Ce \\Vî^^ fr ]^vl05Ô^\u2018 MÜNTË&AL HERALD SIMM Ml & JOB PRINTING OFFICE Ko.Æ09 Kotre Oame Street, (Near St.François Xavier St.,) MONTREAL.f Ï\"1HE Proprietor of this Establishment begs to I inform his friends and the public in general, that having ENLARGED h iSTOOK of PRINTING MATERIALS, STEAM PRESSES &c.j he is now prepared to undertake every description of Printing, such as Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Insurance Policies, Programmes, Catalogues, Posting Bills, Hand Bills, Railway Bills, Steamboat Bills, Circulars, Invitation and Funeral Letters, Druggists and other Labels Military Forms of every description, &c., with despatch, and at the LOWEST CITY PRICES.S3* Business Cards neatly and promptly executed.JAMES POTTS Jan.26.\t22 Rouses, TO LET, OR FOR SALE.DWELLING HOUSES.TO LET, One of those First Class Two Story Out Stone Houses, Hanover Terrace, Bleury Street, No.5, with Water ______Closet and Baths.Possession on 1st May next.Rent Low.Apply to C.TUG GEY, At Messrs.J.& W.Hilton\u2019s, Between 12 and 2 o\u2019clock.March 22.\t68 TO LET, A neat Two Story Brick House in Aylmer Street, at present occupied by Miss Barrett.Possession on 1st __\tMay next.Apply to C.TUGGEY, At Messrs.J.& W.Hilton\u2019s, between 12 and 2 o\u2019clock.March 17.\t64 TO LET, From the first May next.That THREE STORY CUT STONE DWELLING, No.70 Craig Street, adjoining the residence of A.F.Holmes Esq., M D.In addition to the conveniences already possessed by the dwelling, considerable improvements will be made this Spring.\u2014Also,\u2014 The Second flat of the premises No.64 Great St.James\u2019 Street, immediately oppotite the Odd-Fellows Hall.Containing seven apartments, well adapted for a suit of offices\u2014these rooms would be let altogether or separate.Possession given immediately.Apply to R.CAMPBELL & CO., St.Francois Xavier Street.March 16.\t63 Jtttmtrfâl IvXvOm \\VvdU ftam AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOLUME LI.MONTREAL, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1859.next.Rouses, $rcM TO LET, OR FOR SALE.HOUSE TO LET That First Class Two Story Cut Stone House, No.229 Lagauchetiere Street and now occupied by the Hon.A.A.Dorion.Possession 1st of May Apply to C.BRUNE AU, At McDonnough & Muir\u2019s, Notre Dame Street.February 12.36 TO LET, ^ A Two-Story BRICK HOUSE, on St.Joseph Street, No.302.Possession on 1st May next._____Apply to C.TUGGEY, At Messrs.J.& W.Hilton\u2019s, Between 12 & 2 o\u2019clock.Feb.11.\t35 TO LET, That First Class Dwelling House, situated in Lagauchetiere Street, near Monique Street, at present occupied , by James Torrance, Esq , being fitted up with all the modern improvements, such as Hot Air Furnace, Hot and Cold Baths, Water Closets, &c.,&c.Possession 1st May next.Apply to N.S.WHITNEY.February 22.\t4t TO LET, Two First Class Three Story Cut Stone Houses, provided with all sorts of accommodation, in St.Joseph Street' Enquire of NORBERT DUMAS.March 14.\t61 ~\t\"\t~ TO LET, That three-story Brick House and Shop, forming the corner of St.Catherine and St.Lawrence Main ______ Streets, at present occupied by Mr.W Brown.Apply to G.REINHARDT, Nos.7 and 9 Bonsecours Market.March 11.\t60 '\tïôtbt;\t~ From 1st May next, THOSE First-class Three-story CUT-k STONE HOUSES, Nos.40, 42, and 44, St.Denis Street.They are fitted up with all modefn improvements, having Gas through them, Hot and Cold Water Baths, Water-Closets, &c.; spacious Coach-Houses, large Stables, &c.Enquire of the Proprietor.JOSEPH GRENIER, No.250 Lagauchetiere Street, Near St.Denis Street.March 7.\t55 ~\tTO LET, That First Class Three Story Cut Stone House, No.7 Little St.James Street, occupied for the last 9 years by B.Devlin, Esq., and is in first Tate order.Apply at the Boot and Shoe Store of EDW.THOMPSON, 146 Notre Dame Street.March 5.\t54 TO, LET,~ From 1st May next, The beautifully situated THREE-\u2018 STORY CUT STONE HOUSE, No.3 Windsor Place, being surrounded _______ by Gardens ; it is fitted up with all modern improvements, having Gas through the House, Hot and Cold Water Bath, Water Closet, &c., 4c.The Out-Houses are very convenient, having a spacious Coach-house, Wood-house, Coal-house, Harness Room, Stables, &c.Enquire of the Proprietor, ARCH.FERGUSON, No.1 Windsor Place, _\tDorchester Street, West.Feb.15.\t38 DlKHàM MOUSE, TO LET.THAT Desirable DETACHED RESIDENCE with Wings, Garden and Outbuildings and a never failing _______ Spring, situated on tbe St.Lawrence Main Street, north of Sherbrooke Street.john James browne, Architect, Office 132 Craig Street.Feb.3.\t28 TO LET, Two or Three neat TWO STORY BRICK HOUSES on Acqueduct Street, Nos.2 and 3.Possession on 1st May next.Apply to C.TUGGEY, At Messrs.J.& W.Hilton\u2019s, Between 12 and 2 o\u2019clock.February 3.\t28 l A FIRST-CLASS HOUSE TO LET on Cadieu Street.Enquire at 97 St.Constant Street.______\tO.DUROCHER.June 18.\t143 TO LET, A comfortable Dwelling of six apartments and Cellar ; supplied with Gas and Water and with convenient Outbuildings, situated in St.Charles Barromee Street.Possession on the 1st May next- Apply to\tG.D.WATSON, St.Sacrament Street.February 9.\t33 TO LET, The Two Story Brick House, and Ground, forming the corner of Sherbrooke Street West and Guy Street, _______ occupied for the past two years by Joseph McKay, Esq.Possession can be had early.February 16.E.D.DAVID.39 SHOPS with DWELLINGS.TO LET.The STORE and DWELLING in St James\u2019 Street, extending to Fortification Lane, adjoining the Methodist ______Church, and now occupied by C.Fj Hill, Auctioneer.TH0S, KAY.Feb.5.\tso TO LET, ^ The House and Store, corner of St.Paul Street and Custom House Square, adjoining the Harbour Commissioners Office.Enquire of R.& G.LAFLAMME, Advocates, No.6 Plaae d\u2019Armes.February 17.\t40 STORES.TO LET, The Store corner of Foundling and w Port Streets.The Store on Foundling Street, next to Messrs.Cussacks.Apply to O.BERTHELET, Or A.LAROCQUE.March 17.\t64 TO LET, Two Stores, forming part of the Block of First Class Three Story Stone Warehouses, recently erected on the Corner of William and Grey Nun Streets.IRA GOULD.37 TO LET, _ A Neat TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSE, No.6 Poplar Place, Mountain Street.Rent moderate.Possession on 1st May.Apply to C.TUGGEY, At Messrs.J.& W.Hilton\u2019s, Between 12 and 2 o\u2019clock.February 3.\t28 FUR SALE, OR TO LETj ^ Several of those handsome new Houses, ~ with Out Stone Fronts, in University Street (West of the new Cathedral Church).Theytare finished off with modern improvements, and will require a very small outlay for fuel, being built in the most substantial manner and best devised mode for comfort and economy.This locality will shortly become the most fashionable and pleasant part of the city.\u2014Also,-^ TO BE LET, Two new Brick Houses, [with Garden attached] situated ou St.Lawrence Street, West of Sherbrooke Street _____and Moulton Avenue.Possession on 1st May.Apply to WM.BDLMER, No.7 St.Genevieve\u2019Street, or on the premises.Januarv 21.\t17 TO LETj And Possession given on the first day of May next ensuing, Some of those FIRST-CLASS HOUSES, situate in McGill College Avenue, the property of Madam Masson.They are fitted up for Gas, Water, Bath and Water-Closet, and with every modern improvement ; and the locality is not surpassed by any near the city.Apply to\tJOHN ATKINSON, No.44 Dorchester Street.Jan 10.\t____________________ TO LET, From the 1st of May next, AjFirst Class House, No.1 Dorchester \u2018 Terrace, St.Constant Street, fitted up in the most modern stile, with Cold and Hot-water Baths, Gassa-liers, Furnace, large Out-buildings,Garden, &c.Apply to S.HOLMES, 125 St.Paul Street.February 10.\t34 February 14.FOR SALE, That Valuable Block of Buildings in Grey Nun Street, Nos.12 and 14, with Brick Store in rear, in the vicinity of the contemplated Docks and Harbour Improvements, and contiguous to the Lachine Canal Steamboat Basin.E.D.DAVID.January 6.\t11 TO LET, THE STORE, No.242, St.Paul Street, at present occupied by Messrs.John Pratt & Co.Apply to HENRY JUDAH, Jan.25.\t20 TO LET, A Fine WHOLESALE STORE, at No.158 St.Paul Street.This Store has Three Flats, and was lately occupied _______ by A, Tellier, Esq., and is situate in the New Building erected by the Subscriber.Conditions liberal.V.HUDON.Feb.1.\t26 INKERMANN TERRACE.HOUSE NO.2 TO LET, from 1st of May\u2014completely Painted and Ta-pared ; Hot and Cold Water to Bath - Room; Water Closet, &c., and all other requisites of a First-Class Dwelling, Apply to RICHARD PHILBIN, Stanley Street, JOHN FAIRBAIRN, Broker, se Or Feb.12.TO LET, That Three Story Brick House, in Grev Nun Street, next the \u201c Victoria House,\" occupied for the past three years by Mr.Martin Mansfield.February 15\t^-^-VID -\u2014\t39 TO LET Two Cut Stone Dwelling Houses w the Corner of Metcalfe^and St bath5 rme Streets, IWest nf vu ,\u2022 tle\" -Terrace,] haying Gas, Balh and\u2018aU modern improvements.\t\u2019\t\u2019ana .Possession 1st May next j.*»,*,/™'7\"\u2019 TO LEI, From 1st May next, THOSE commodious PREMISES,^No, 208 St.Paul Street, lately occupied by Messrs.J.D.Bernard & Go.For particulars, enquire of Messrs.GAL ARNE AU & ROY, Or, Messrs.COUILLARD & WILSON,.Nov, 23.\t278 TO LET, That Superior Shop, with back Store, in Notre Dame Street, No.202.This Store has been occupied fora great number of years as a Fancy Goods Store by the undersigned and others.GALARNEAU & ROY, No.204 St.Paul Street.February 12.\t36 TO LET, That Large and Excellent STORE, No.13 William Street, at present occu-.« .pied by Thos.Kershaw, Esq.'Ml Apply to ANDREW WATSON.Feb.13.\t37 TO LET.The Store corner of Common and George Streets, at present occupied by Messrs.John Macpherson ic^Co., ______Forwarders.Apply to i.;buchanan, karris & co., St.Alexis Street.Eeb.28.\t'40 STORE TO LET, Thn new Cut Stone Building, No.21 Becollét, near McGill Street.Immediate possession, if required.Apply to A.RaMSAY, Oil and Color Merchant, Recollect Street.February 25.\t47 MISCELLANEOUS.houses, TO LET, OR FOR SALE.-O LET, A Good Business Stand, with Fixtures, Water and Gas Fittings, complete.TWO -ALSO,\u2014 BRICK DWELLINGS and Charles.TWO COTTAGES, with a Garden and a Well of Spring Water to each, in the vicinity of Point St.Apply to March 11.FRANCIS MULLINS.lm-mwt-59 TO LET, THE SOAP and CANDLE FACTORY, situated in St.NL lolas Tolentiue Street, St.Mary\u2019s Suburbs.The premises are specious and well adapted for a large Manufacturing Business of any kind.Rent moderate.Possession immediately.Apply at the office of F.RUFFORD, 30 Little St.James Street.February 16.\t39 TO LET, And possession given immediately, A part of that well-known Premises, occupied for the past two years as the Argus Printing Office.Rent moderate.Apply to BRYSON & CO.February 10.\t34 TO LET,\t~ - b: I In a most delightful situation, PART of a HOUSE, where there are no Children or Boarders.Private Board can be had if required.Address \u201c D.D.,\u201d Office of this paper.Jan.28.\t23 TO LET OR FOR SALE.BAKE-HOUSE in St.Elizabeth Street,.\u2014also,\u2014 Several COTTAGES at LACHINE.Applv to LOUIS BOYER.Feb.11.\t2m-35 Corporation of Montreal.J Water Works Office, City Hall, Montreal, March 23, 1859 SEALED TENDERS will be received at the OFFICE of the CITY CLERK, up to the 12th of APRIL next, at NOON, for the LAYING OF THE WATER PIPES, HYDRANTS, and STOP COCKS, in the different Streets of the City of Montreal.The Tenders to be made on a Printed Form, which can be procured at the Office of the Superintendant of Water Works, City Hall.The Tenders to contain the real signature of two responsible persons who are willing to become Sureties for the fulfillment of the Contract.By Order, LOUIS LESAGE, Superintendant ofW.W.March 24.\t70 Corporation of Montreal* Water Works Office, ) City Hall,\t> Montreal, March 23, 1859.) SEALED TENDERS will be received at the OFFICE of the CITY CLERK, up to the 19 th APRIL next, at NOON, for EIGHTY [80] TONS OF LEAD PIPE, divided as follows ;\u2014 Sixty-five (65) tons of J inch Lead Pipe, weighing nine (9) pounds per yard ; Fifteen (15) tors of 1 inch, weighing fourteen (14) pounds per yard.The whole to be made of the best Pig Lead, and free from any imperfection.To be delivered at the Montreal Water Works Shop\u2014Forty [40] tons by the 10th of May next, and the remainder by the 1st of July next.By Order, LOUIS LESAGE, Superintendant of W.W.March 24.\t70 REMOVAL.THE Subscribers have REMOVED into their NEW STOKE, Corner of St.Paul & St.Eloi Streets Opposite Messrs.H.B.Smith & Co.They now have on hand a LARGE STOCK of ROXTON SOLE LEATHER, French Calf Skins, Tipper & Harness Leather &e,\t&e,\t&c.JOHN PRATT & CO.March 18.\t1m 64 TO LET, Part of the First and Second Chambers in the new Store in St.Peter Street, next door to Messrs.A.Ur-quhart & Co., for a term of one or three years.The Store is immediatly opposite the end of St.Sacrament Street.Apply to Mr.JAMES MACLEAN, Grocer, St.James Street, or to March 18.PETER CLARKE, 180 Bleury Street.lm-65 TO LET, The Upper Part of a First-Class STORE, in St.Paul Street, fitted up for the Dry Goods Trade in first-rate style Apply to November 15.PAUL HUA, 163 St.Paul Street.271 FOR SALE, OR TO LET, That CENTRAL PROPERTY, No.7 John Street, extending through to St.Alexis Street, occupied during ______the past ten years by Mr.John Boyd, Black and White Smith.Apply to W.R.HIBBARD, 161 St.Paul Street Feb.10.\t34 TO LET, And possession given 1st May next, THREE ROOMS for Offices in the se-5 , il ®oniJ flat, over GIBB & GO\u2019S Great bt.James Street, at present occupied sliH^chfd totifepkts.MeGH1- There i8 \" January 51,\t^ GIB2Bj REMOVAL.TD.JONES begs to intorm his Customers a and the Public in general, that he will REMOVE his PLACE OF BUSINESS, on the FIRST MAY, to the PREMISES (Two Doors North of his present Store) forming the CORNER of ST.LAWRENCE and VITRE STREETS, at present occupied by Mr.G.Dbake.39 ST.LAWRENCE MAIN STREET.March 9.\t57 I^IHE following English Houses have ap pointed the undersigned their Agent for Canada ;\u2014 DRUGS 9 Evans, Sons & Co., Liverpool.Perfumery, Brushes, Soaps, &c, John Gosnell & Co., London.Pickles, Sauces, &c.E.Lazenby & Son, London.Agricultural aad Gardeu Seeds, Jacob Wrench & Sons, London.Confectionery, Joseph Terry & Sons, \\ork.Hair-Cloth and Curled Hair, E.Webb, Worcester.White Lead, Varnish, Colours, &c.Bay lis & Co., London.Wax Vestas, Matches, Blacking.Inks, 4c., Letchford & Co , London.Glass Bottles, of every Descriptiou.Ayr and Calder Bottle Company, Castleford.Microscopes, Stereoscopes, &c< Smith, Beck & Beck, London.Paper-Hanging S.T.Evans, London.Apply to FRANCIS CUNDILL, St.Andrew\u2019s Buildings, St.Peter Street, PROVINCIAL PARSIAMEST.LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.Toronto, March 31.took the chair at three o\u2019- March 8 Montreal.6m 56 WHEN YOU ASK FOR GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH See that you get it.As inferior kinds are often substituted, March 7.\t55 WIGS!! WIGS!! AIR DYE, Wigs, Toupees and WIGS ! PALMER\u2019S Ladies\u2019 Bands for sale, and the dye privately applied.At No.125 NOTRE DAME STREET.June 17, 1858,\tly-168 The SPEAKER clock, ENQUIRY.Hon.Mr.De La TERRIRE enquired whether it is the intention of the Government shortly to accede to the request of certain petitioners, by ordering the surveying of a township at Great Ha 1 Ha I Lake, along the road which leads from St.Urbain to Great Ha! Ha! Bay in the county of Chicoutimi.Hou.Mr.VANKOUGHNET replied that the Government was preparing to obtain information with respect to the character of the land in question ; and if it was found that it was good, and likely soon to be settled, he would have it surveyed, or as much of it as was good land.The cost of surveying a township ten miles square, was from £600 to £1,000, and it would be useless to expend that sum unless some return could be expected from it.MB.PATTON REBELLIOUS.The business ot the House happening to be finished at a quarter to four, The SPEAKER informed the House that ac-errding to law the Election Committee could nould not be sworn in until four o\u2019clock.Therefore the members of the House sat in solemn silence gazing at the clock, until the minute hand marked the fourth hour, when Sir E.P.TACHE moved that the Sorel Election Committe be sworn in.On calling over the names of the committee, Hon.Messrs.Dionne, Elzear Duchesnay, Gordon and Matheson were found to be present, and Hon.Mr.Patton absent.The SPEAKER informed the House that he would give Mr.Patton until five o\u2019clock to appear, and in the meantime adjourn the House during pleasure.At five o\u2019clock the SPEAKER again resumed the chair.Sir E.P.TACHE moved that the names of the Election Committee be called again.It was done, and Mr.Patton was found again to be absent.Sir E.P.TACHE then moved that the 74th section of the Electoral Act of 1851 be read.The section provided that if any member ol the Election Committee did not appear in his place one hour after four o\u2019clock, he should thereupon taken into the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms.The hon.gentlemen said that it gave him pain that this duty fell upon him,\u2014for the gentleman against whom the motion was directed, he entertained the greatest respect.But4he had no alternative than to move the Speaxer\u2019s warrant be issued for Mr.Patton\u2019s apprehension.Hon.Mi.MORRIS said that in the early part of the day he had had a motion to make which he^ had abstained from putting, as he did not think that the House would go so far as the present motion indicated.However, now that the present motion had been put, he felt that injustice to his absent friend he could not remain silent any longer, or abstain from moving an amendment.He felt that the law must be upheld ; but while agreeing with hon.gentlemen thus far, he also begged them to remember that the present was an exceptional case, and that a recurrence of anything like it was not like to be witnessed again.He felt that his hon.friend [Mr.Patton] had committed himself; but at the same time he would urge iu his excuse that having much firmness of character.He (Mr.Morris) felt that he could not, but express his sorrow that his friend should have criminated himseif ; but that gentleman having done so he trusted that the House would excuse him.In conclusion he would move au amendment to the effect that tbe Hon.Mr.Patton, having conscientious scruples from serving on the Election Committee, his name be discharged therefrom.Hon.Mr.FERGUSON said that the Hon.Mr.Patton having been in the House that day, and having expressed his opinion that he would not serve on the commiliee, that non.gentleman had been guilty of a gross slight to the House, and he could not see how the amendmet could be carried out.Hon.Mr.DeBLAQUIERE in seconding the amendment entered into the feelings of the Hon.Mr.Patton.Hon.Mr.FERRIE said that he could not see any conscientious scruples in the matter, but on the contrary he saw a great deal of stubbornness.Hon.Mr.MURNEY did not see how a resolution of the House could get over the act of Parliament.Every indulgence had been offered to the Hon.Mr.Patton, but he had tried the patience of the House to the utmost.Hon.Col.PRINCE appealed to the kindness of the House to save his hon.friend from the harsh sentence of the House.Hon.Mr.DeBLAQUIERE again urged on the House not to press the matter ; and at the same time blamed the Speaker for, in the first instance striking an election panel which could be considered partial, and which had led in the next place to the present state of things.It was because Mr.Patton considered his decision had been called in question as a man of honor and a gentleman, that he now refused to serve on the committee, and in this view of the case, the present determination of Mr.Patton not to serve was not a defiance of the authority of thé House.Hon.Mr.FERGUSSON said that now was not the time to talk in this strain.The hon.gentlemen in question had gone so far that he could not see how the House could do ought but accede to the motion.Hon.Mr.MOORE would like to know what the conscientious scruples alluded to were.Had the hon.Mr.Patton an objection to take an oath ?It had not been stated that such was the objection.Indeed, the present mode of asking excuse, for the hon.gentleman was merely trifling with the House ; and it was the duty of the House to proceed, no matter how painful the duty might be.The question ou the amendment was then put and lost, when the motion for Mr.Patton\u2019s arrest was put and carried.Mon.Mr.KIERZKOWSKI drew attention to a breach of privilege which was likely to occur if the Sergeant-at-arms had the task of arresting Mr.Patton.He would move therefore that that duty should devolve on the Usher of the black Rod.The hon.gentleman quoted from May\u2019s practice to sustain his motion.Hon.Mr, TESSIER dissented.The Hon.the SPEAKER dissented also.After further discussion the motion dropped, and the House adjourned during pleasure until seven o\u2019clock, to give Mr.Patton another chance to appear.At seven o\u2019clock the SPEAKER again resumed the chair, when the names of the election committee were called over for the third time, and all answered except the hon.Mr.Patton.It was then ordered that the name of the hon.gentleman be again called at four o\u2019clock to morrow and the House adjourned.LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.Toronto, March 31.The SPEAKER took the Chair at three o'clock.CARRYING OF BOWIE-KNIVES.The bill from the Legislative Council to prevent the carrying of bowie-knives, pistols, daggers, &c., was read a first time, on the motion of Attorney General Cartier and moved for a second reading.Mr.DURION did not see the reason for such haste.Attorney General CARTIER aaid his object was to mark the feeling entertained hy the House with respect to the carrying of such weapons.Mr.J.S.MACDONALD hoped the second reading at once would be consented to.It appeared to him that the measure was a most necessary and admirable one.Mr.FOLEY thought there was no need for the second reading at this period, Mr.MACDOUGALL also spoke against the second reading in such speed, as calculated to give rise to an unwarrantable opinion out ot doors.Atty Gen.CARTIER said that no objection would be offered if hon.gentlemen would peruse tbe evidence given before the committee in the other House by one of the police officers of Toronto.Mr.BROWN, while believing some such measure to be necessary, agreed with his hon.friends on that side of the House that nothing could be gained by such haste.Mr.MoGEE said he bad heard from young people that very many people went out at night in Toronto and elsewhere armed with deadly weapons, and their example induced others to go armed in a similar manner.He should most heartily support the measure.The bill was theu read a second time, and ordered for a third reading to-morrow, SUPPLY.On motion of Mr.GALT, the report of the committee of the whole on the supplies was received, read by the Clerk and assented to.Mr.GALT took occasion to state in answer to a charge made by Mr.Brown the other evening, that he had received a letter from the Auditor informing him that Mr.Dickson, appointed to the Reformatory Prison at Isle aux Noix, did not draw any salary as Inspector of the Penitentiary since Ilia appointment to the Bcformatory Priaon, On the item of 524,000 for the exoense of printing and binding the laws, a slight discussion took place.r Mr.BROWN contended that the statutes ought to be printed by public competition in-stead of by the Queen\u2019s printers.Mr.J.SANFIELD MACDONALD urged that it was necessary to have some person as a public printer, in whom the Government could place a peculiar confidence, as there were frequently matters requiring to be printed which could not be entrusted 10 other hands He be lieved a loss would, result if the statutes were not printed by the Queen\u2019s printers.They could not be printed as cheaply by the proprietors of the Leader or the Globe or of any other paper in the country, for they had not as large a stock.Atty.Gen.CARTIER said they were by statute required to give the printing of the statutes to the Queen\u2019s printers.Mr.BROWN thought that any printer receiving the work\u2014even though by lowest tender\u2014would be the Queen\u2019s printers.Dr.CONNOR saftl it would take $100,000 to print and distribute the revised statutes, and yet it wa§ not to be found in the estimates.\u2014 He thought it must be an oversight.Mr.GALT said the item under discussion was a dis-tinct and separate item from that of which the hon.gentleman was speaking.On the matter of printing the revised statutes $4,000 had already been paid, and $5,000 for printing the indices of the laws.Therefore the item under consideration was for the ordinary service of the laws irrespective of that peculiar service.Dr.CONNOR thought there was no necessity for this item for printing the statutes of this year.Were not, he would ask, the statutes of this year to be incorporated with the consolidated statutes.Atty.Gen.CARTIER said it was a matter under discussion before the committee on the revised statutes whether this could be effected.Mr.GALT, in reference to the item for printing and distributing the revised statutes, remarked that the estimates were brought down a month ago, and he clearly could not have anticipated the action of the committee.Mr.HOGAN defended the characters of prints ers, denying the statement of the member for Cornwall, that others besides the Queen\u2019s printers could not be found in the Province who could equally be depended upon as far as secrecy was concerned, for the printing of Government work.It was a discredit to the country that this monopoly of the Queen\u2019s printers and the Canada Gazette were not done away with.Mr.BROWN moved in amendment that the following words be added to the resolution\u2014 \u201c on the condition that the same be given out by public contract.The amendment was lost.The next item of $10,000 t( for other printing and subscription to and advertising in the Official Gazette?Mr.BROWN desired to know what the \u201cother printing, &c.\u201d meant ?Mr.GALT said it was the printing of matters like the tariff, proclamations, appointments, the distribution of the Gazette's and other Government printing.Mr.BROWN thought $10,000 too much to cover that.In 1850, all tnis work was to be done for about $6,000, and expressed his determination to oppose this motiou.Several matters were repeated over and over again, which were perfectly useless.The public never knew what the Gazette contained, except what was copied in the newspapers.The two volumes of last year could not- have cost the public less than $25,000 or $30,000 Many printers could be got to do the same work for $7,000.Suppose the Government had taken their own journal, the Colonistj and inserted their advertisements, they would have a circulation of 6,000 or 7,000 copies, the Gazette had a mere trifle of a circulation.Atty.-Gen.CARTIER\u2014I must object to what the hon.gentleman says.Is the Government y>roprieU,r\to Mr.BROWN\u2014OhTl did\u2019nt mean that ; but if the Government wohld take that paper for the publication of their official notices, it would not cost the country anything like what the Gazette does.But if the present system were to go on, then throw open the publication of the Gazette to public tender.Mr.GALT said the anxiety of the Government was as great to cut down expenses as that of the member for Toronto ; but there was not one advertisement inserted in the Gazette which had not to be published in it by law, and it was perfectly clear there should be an official medium in the country.The public got regularly 1850 copies of that paper, and the right of inserting 15 columns of matter for £250, or 12s 6d a copy.Mr.BROWN\u2014Is that the case now ?Mr.GALT\u2014Certainly.Mr.BROWN\u2014How long?Mr.GALT\u2014For four or five years.Mr.BROWN\u2014It can\u2019t be carried out.Mr.GALT\u2014It is carried out.[Hear, hear.] From the information brought before the Printing Committee, it was found that, the cost of the Gazette to the public was about $12,000 a-year.Mr.BROWN\u2014It is an entire mistake.Mr.GALT\u2014I have only the state of the cost, as it is.Mr.McGEE\u2014Throw it open to contract.Mr.GALT\u2014It is very easy to say throw it open to contract, but not easy to do it.The official notices should be under the direct control of the Government, and could not be given out by contract.There should be an official medium of communication with the public.Mr.HOGAN would venture to assert that there were several publishers in Toronto, who would take the publication of the Gazette into their own hands and give the Government a premium of £2,000 or £3,000.And he would further venture to say that if the chairman of the committee [Mr.Benjamin] were placed over the printing of the House and the Government, a saving of £10,000 a-year would be effected.The Canada Gazette should be suppressed ; and from the antecedents of the In, spector General he believed that there was not a man in the country better able to take the matter in hands than he was.Mr.TALBOT did not see that tbe Gazette charged more for the insertion of advertisements than all the county journals\u20144d per line.And the subscription price was only half-a-dollar a year more.He did not therefore see anything in this to object to.He concurred in the remark made by the member for Grey that a large sav, ing could be effected by having a competent person placed over the printing ot the House and of the Government.But that matter was mooted last year and it was condemned U toto by the Opposition and their chief organ.He was happy, however, to inform hon.gentlemen opposite that last year a large reduction was made in the cost of printing, and this year a still larger reduction would be effected.The only valid objection that he saw that could be urged against letting the printing of the statutes out to public competition was that it was necessary to have the imprint of the Queen\u2019s printer on them, and make them responsible for their correctness.Mr.BROWN said that any person might be Queen\u2019s printer as well as Derbyshire and Des-bara's.Mr.TALBOT\u2014How can you set aside the comission ?Mr.BROWN\u2014That is a mere will-and-the-whisp.It is a perfect bugbear.(Ironical hear, hear.) He would move to add these words to the resolution\u2014\u201cOn condition that from and after the IstJnly next the printing of the said Canada Gazette shall be given out by public tender.\u201d Mr.J.S.MACDONALD contended that the patent of the Queen\u2019s printer could not be set aside by a vote of the House.He would suggest that a committee should be appointed to enquire into the matter.Mr.GALT\u2014The Printing Committee have already enquired into it.Mr.J.S.MACDONALD said there might be extravagance in the printing of this journal.It was said it could be printed for $7,000 a-year, but he should have proof before believing it.Attorney General CARTIER said the member for Toronto belonged to that class of individuals, who, in case the printing ot the Gazette were put out to competition would Is a competiting party.Mr.BROWN\u2014Not at all ! Atty.Gen.CARTIER\u2014Not at all; but at the time of the formation of that Government called the Brown-Dorion Government it was said that the ownership of the Globe had passed from the present proprietor to another.And for what?So that the hon.member might have the printing of the statutes and other little matters.Mr.BROWN\u2014Who said so?Atty.Gen.CARTIER\u2014The public.(Hear, hear.) Not long ago there were two Gazettes] one in Upper and Lower Canada, and great credit should be given the Government because they had done away with one of them, and conducted the public business with the other.The member for Toronto had said that the printers of the Gazette made enormous profits by tho publication of that paper.Well, he hoped he would be made to prove that statement before the Printing Committee, for he would now give no data.Mr.BROWN desired to say that the notion never came into his head to change the proprie-of the Globe.He believed the matter was never before mentioned, and he defied any member in the House to get up and say so.Mr.RUBLIN\u2014I heard it.(Hear, hear.) Mr.TALBOT said a paragraph appeared in the Colonist at the time, and surmises arose from it.DROWN\theatd ot it before, and cet- NUMBER 79.tainly did not intend doing so.M.DORION inquired how the patent of the personos who published the Lower Canada Gazette was disposed of, when the printing was removed from him ?Atty.Gen.CARTIER\u2014It was abolished by act of Parliament.M.DORION thought the same could be done now.Mr.FOLEY said that the Queen\u2019s printers had made sufficient during tbe last seven or eight years to entitle the House to ent them down now.Mr.McGEE spoke to the same effect.The hon.Atty.Gen.Erst said a short time ago that the Goyernment were not the proprietors of the Colonist ; but he could state what was the generally received opinion that if Government patronage was withdrawn from that journal it would not stand three months.Mr.Brown\u2019s amendment was then read in English and French by the Chairman1 (Mr.Benjamin), and on being put to a division was lost.The item of $10,000 for the printing, subscription to and advertising in the official Gazette was then put and carried.The item for the expense of the River Police, Montreal, for 1859, $9000 ; of which to be borne by the Harbor Commissioners, $3,700, Balance required.5300 On the item for Tug Service between Montreal and Kingston 24,000.Mr.ROSE explained that the entire number of vesselstowed lastyear was3011 ; and the private contributions for this service amounted to $44,-000\u2014making, with the amount contributed by Government $68,000.There were eight steamers of considerable power employed in this service, and the contract had to run tor three years from tbe summer of 1858.The item was passed.On the next item of $84,000 for a similar service below Quebec.Mr.ROSE explained the contract had been entered in for 10 years from February 1855.The capital invested in this enterprise was from £70,000 to £80,000 and much risk was run both by the contractor and Government.In 1855 the contract was let at £11,300 a year.But the following year it was found that the towage rates were too high and consequently it was deemed better they s1 uld he reduced one-half.The contractor agred to this on condition the Government paid an additional 30 per cent.\u2014thereby losing 20 per cent, himself.In that position the matters stands tc day.In IS57 107 vessels were towed.But last year the number of vessels towed amounted to but 32\u2014thus showing the uncertainty and risk attending the letting out of the contract.The tariff in ls57, he fouod, amounted to $3,673 and the per ceutage to $2.204.In the following year, for the 30 vessels towed the towage amounted to $5,985 and the per cent-age $3,051.He would also mention however, that these vessels engaged in the contracts had done much towards reducing tbe rates of insurance.Mr.BROWN said that nothing could be conceived more absurd pt insane than the entering into such a contract,\u2014a contract whith had last year cost the country the frightful amount ot nearly $2,000 for each vessel towed 1 Mr.CAUCHON said that he was aware that the contract was, oh the part of the contractor, almost a ruinous one.The capital embarked by that gentleman in the experiment was enormous, and had been working against the contractor.He might also mention that this contract had been brought before tbe House originally and received its sanction.Hence the Government went into the con'ract, with the consont of the Legislature, and they were therefore bound to sustain it.Mr.GaYLEY corroborated the remarks ofthe hon.member for Montmorenei.The item was carried.Mr.BROWN objected to go any farther.Dr.CONNOR moved that the Committe rise.Mr.GALT said he hoped the hou.gentleman would allow them to go on.They were within an item or two of the end.Mr.BROWN objected.Mr.SHERWOOD said that if the hon.member for Toronto had not wasted so much time in useless opposition they would be through by this time.Dr.CONNOR said that such a charge was nlu3i ibiproper.He would move the Comîhittéû rise (lost, lost.) The motion was lost on a division.The next item of $1,000 to the Board of Ans and Manufacture for Upper and Lower Canada being moved, Mr.WHITE rose and expressed a hope that hon.gentleman would take it easy.Mr.S.SMITH\u2014You won\u2019t enlighten us much.Mr.WHITE\u2014I\u2019m sure you won\u2019t contribute much to the enlightment.The next item, $1094 * 7 for the pay and contingencies of the Montreal Police Force for Dec.1858 being moved, Mr.BROWN said\u2014There\u2019s more of it.Mr.WHITE-How\u2019s this?Mr.GALT explained.Dr.CONNOR really did not understand.Was it the River Police ?A ME tlBER;\u2014Of course.(Laughter).Dr.CONNOR thought it a most unreasonable and unfair charge.It appeared to him extraordinary that a river police should be required iu December.Was there trade going on then?Were there robberies ?He would move this item be not allowed.Mr.FOLEY\u2014How many men are in this force ?M.CARTIER\u201432 and the officers.Mr.FOLEY\u2014That is just the number of vessels to Quebec lastyear.Can the Attorney General explain the coincidence?(Laughter.) M.CARTIER\u2014It is owing to the hon.gentleman\u2019s acntene-s.(Laughter).Mr.AIK1NS\u2014How much are they paid each month ?Mr.RYMAL thought it was not right to submit so many qust ons to the Government, as its head (J.A.Macdonald) was absent.Mr.BROWN hoped they would not proceed with the discussion at that hour twenty minutes past twelve.) Mr.GALT said it was not fair of the hon.member to be so unreasonable.Dr.CONNOR said it was too late to vote away any more public money.He would ask the Inspector General\u2014who was unquestionably the head of the Government\u2014would the country sustain them, at such a period as this, in forcing through items amounting to $700,000 at this hour of the night.M.CARTIER was glad to see his hon.colleague\u2019s services and ability appreciated on that side.But the bon.member for South Oxford had made a slight mistake respecting the leader of the House.(Laughter.) Dr.CONNOR would tell the Premier at once, that in questions like those before the House they would go to the Inspector General.From one end of tbe country to the other the people viewed the public expenditure with the closest inspection.Mr.GALT said that however much he might be obliged to tbe hon.member would not make any further personal allusions.One thing atall events was remarkable, that while on the Government side of the House all was unanimity under the leadership of the Prenrer, among the Opposition a most astonishing number of differences prevailed.He hoped the House would proceed with tbe items.Mr.FOLEY did not think the Hon.Inspector General should have allowed himself to be complimented after that fashion, without rising to repudiate it, till ha (the Inspector General) had been, rebuked by his leader, the Premier.This much he would say, regarding the Attorney General East, that though some might not like him, he still exhibited manliness, candor, aud openness.(Ironical cries of Hear, hear.) With regard to the question before the House, be (Mr.Foley) trusted hon.gentlemen would not go any further that night.Mr.SHERWOOD said it must be apparent that an obstructive policy had been pursued by the Opposition that evening.He could not help congratulating the hon.member for Waterloo on the great kindness of heart he had shown towards the Premier.Mr.FOLEY\u2014It was not kindness of heart; but it was his (Mr.Foley\u2019s sincere opinioa.Mr.SHERWOOD thought it a somewhat eqivocal sincerity.Dr.CONNOR said the hon.gentleman wan annoyed because he (Mr.Sherwood) had not been paid the compliment.(Laughter.) The hon.gentleman (Dr.Connor) told some anecdote about a literary gentleman, which was perfectly inaudible in the Reportes\u2019 Gallery, owing to the bois-teious demonstrations among the hon gentlemen beneath, Having spoken about ten minutes longer, the hon.gentleman expreesed his intention of talking as long as he liked ; and accordingly, talked a considerable time longer, and was h ard at rare intervals to ejaculate \u201c Let\u2019s go borne.\u201d A few items having been carried, Mr.BROWN,rose and said he differed from the hon.member for Waterloo and South Oxford in their statements about the head of the Government.While an hon.gentleman belonging to the Government was absent concocting a Maine Liquor Law measure, (Shame 1 shame !) Atty.Gen.CARTIER\u2014The hon.member should not make soch statements about an absent member.He (M.Cartier) had informed the hon.member yesterday that the Atty.Gen.West was unwell.Mr.BROWN said it was quite evident the hon.Atty.Gen.West should prepare that measure.Some further discussion having ensued, The Committee rose, and asxed leave to sit again, on to-morrow, and the House adjourned at a quarter to two o\u2019clock, a, n.REMOVAL.rriHE Undersigned HAS REMOVE D to No J.163 ST.PAUL STREET November 15, PAUL HUA.271 American Civilisation Illustrated.A GREAT slave auction.400 UES, W0ÏM & CHILDREN SOLD, MR.PIERCE M.BUTLER CHANGING HIS INVESTMENTS.SCENES ÂTTHE SALE, HUMAN FEELINGS OF NO ACCOUNT.MR.BUTLER GIVES EACH CHATTEL A DOLLAR.From the N.Y.Tribune.The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for several years took place on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, at the Race Course near the City of Savanah, Georgia.The lot consisted of four hundred and thirty six men, women, children and infants, being that half of the negro stock remaining on the old Majo.\u2019s plantations which fell to one of the two heirs to that estate.Major Butler dying, left a property valued at more than a million of dollars, the major part of which was in rice and cotton plantations and the slaves thereon, all of which fortune descended to two heirs, his sons Mr.John A.Butler, sometime deceased, and Mr.Pierce M.Butler, still living and resident in the city of Philadelphia, in the free State of Pennsylvania.Losses in the grand crash of 1857-8, and other exigencies of business, have impelled the latter gentleman to realize on his Southern investments, that he may satisfy sundry pressing creditors, and be enabled to resume business with the surplus, if any.This necessity led to a partition of ths negro stock on the Georgia plantations, between himself and the representative of the other heir, the widow of the late John A.Butler, and the negroes that were brought to the,hammer last week were the property of Mr.Pierce M.Butler of Philadelpdia and were in fact sold to pay Mr.Pierce M.Butler\u2019s debts.The creditors were represented by Gen.Caldwallder, while Mr.Butler was present in person, attended by his business agent, to attend to bis own interests.The sale had been advertised largely for many weeks, and as the negroes were known to be a choice lot and very desirable property, the attendance of buyers was large.The breaking up of an old fantly estate is so uncommon an occurrence that the affair was regarded with unusual interest throughout the South.For set eral days before the sale every hotel in Savannah was crowdedwith negro speculators from North and South Carolina, Virginia.Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana, who had been attracted hither by the prospects of making good bargains.Nothing was heard for days in the bar-rooms and public rooms but talk of the great sale, criticisms of the business affairs, and speculations as to the probable prices the stock wonld bring.The office of Joseph Bryan, the negro broker, who had the management of the sale, was thronged every day by eager inquirers in search of information, and by some who were anxious to buy, but were uncertain as to whether their securities would prove acceptable.Little parties were made up from the various hotels every day to visit the Race Course, distant some three miles from the city, to look over the chattels, discuss their points, and make memoranda for guidance on the day of sale.The buyers were generally oi a rough breed, slangy, profane and bearish, being, for the most part, from the back river and swamp plantations, where the elegancies of polite life are not perhaps developed to their fullest extent, In fact the humanities are sadly neglected by the petty tyrants of the rice fields that border that great Dismal Swamp ; their knowledge of the luxuries of our best society comprehending onlr revolvers a,nd kindred delicacies.Your correspondent was present at an early date, but as he easily anticipated the touching welcome that would, at such time, be officiously extended to a representative of the Tribune, and being a modest man withal, and not desiring to be the recipient of a public demonstration from the enthusiastic Southern population, who, at times, overdo their hospitality and their guests, he did not placard his mission and claim his honors.Although he kept his business in the background, he made himself a prominent figure in the picture, and wherever there was anything going on, there he was in the midst.At the sale he might have been seen a busy individual, armed with pencil and catalogue, doing his little utmost to keep up the appearance of a knowing buyer pricing \u201c likely nigger tellers,\u201d talking confidentially to the smartest ebon maids, chucking the round-eyed youngsters under the chin, making an occasional bid for a large family, (a low bid\u2014so low that somebody always instantly raised him twenty-five dollars, when the busy man would ignom-iniously retreat,) and otherwise conducting himself like a rich planter, with forty thousand dollars where he could put his finger on it.This gentleman was much condoled with by some sympathising persons,when the particularly fine lot on which he had fixed bis critical eye was sold, and lost to him for ever, because he happened to be down stairs at lunch just at the interesting moment.WHERE THE NEGROES CAME FROM.The negroes came from two plantations, the one a rice plantation near Darien in the State of Georgia, not far from the great Okefoncke Swamp, and the other a cotton plantation on the extreme northern point of St.Simon's Island, a little bit of an island in the Atlantic, cut off from Georgia main land, by a slender arm of the sea.Though the most of the stock had been accustomed only to rice and cotton planting and culture, there were among them a number of very passible mechanics, who had been taught to do all the rougher sort of mechanical work on the plantations.They were coopers, carpenters, shoemakers and blacksmiths, each one equal in his various craft to the ordinary of Plantations\u2014that is to say the coopers could make rice tierces, and possibly on a pinch, rude tubs and buckets ; the carpenter could do the rough carpentry about the negro-quarters ; the shoemaker could make shoes of the fashion required for the slaves, and the blacksmith was adequate to the manufacture of hoes and similar simple tools, and to such trifling repairs in the blacksmithing way as did not require too refined a skill.Though probably no one of all these would be called a superior, or even an average workman among the masters of the craft, their knowledge of these various trades sold in some cases for nearly as much as the man\u2014that is, a man without a trade, who would be valued at $900, would readily bring $1,600 or $1,700 if he was a passable blacksmith or cooper.There were no light mulattoes in the whole lot of the Butler stock, and but very few that were even a shade removed from the original Congo blackness.They have been little defiled by the admixture of degenerate Anglo-Saxon blood, and, for the most part, could boast that they were of as pure a breed as the bluest blonde of Spain\u2014a point in their favor in the eyes of the buyer as well as physiologically, for too liberal an infusion of the blood of the dominant brain brings a larger intelligence, a more vigorous brain, which, anon, grows restless under the yoke, and is prone to inquire into the definition of the word liberty, and the meaning of the starry flag which waves, as you may have heard, o\u2019er the land of the free.The pure blooded negroes are much more more docile and manageable than mulattoes, though less quick of comprehension, which makes them preferred by drivers, who can stimulate stupidity by the lash much better than they can control intelligence by it.None of the Butler slaves have ever been sold before, but have been on these two plantations since they were born.Here have they lived their humble lives, and loved their simple loves; here were they born, and here have many of them had children born unto them; here had their parents lived before them, and are now resting in quiet graves on the old plantations that these unhappy ones are to see no more forever ; here they left not only the well-known scenes dear to them from very babyhood by a thousand fond memories, and their homes as loved by them perhaps as brighter homes by men of brighter faces ; but all the clogging ties that bound them to living hearts were torn, for one half of each these two happy little communities was sent to the shambles to be scattered to the four winds, but the other halt was left behind.And who can tell how closely inter-wined are affections of a little band of four hundred living souls isolated from all the world beside, from birth to middle aged ?Do they not naturally become one great family, each man a brother unto each ?It is true they were sold \u201c in families but let us see : a man and his wife were called a \u201c family,\u201d their parents and kindred were not taken into account; the man and his wife might be sold to the pine woods of North Carolina, their brothers and sisters be scattered through the cotton fields of Alabama and tbe rice swamps of Louisiana, while the parents might be left on the old plantation to wear out their weary lives in heavy grief, and lay their heads in.far off graves over which their children might never weep.And no account could be takenoflQYeatlwtiwere»9 yet uneoaaummat- ed by marriage, and how many aching hearts have been divorced by this summary proceed ing, no man can ever know.And the séparations is as utter, and is infinitely more hopeless, than that made by the angel of death, for in the latter case the loved ones are committed to tho care of a merciful Deity, but in the latter to the tender mercies of a slave driver.These dark skinned unfortunates are perfectly unlettered, and could not commun! cate by writing even if they would know where to send their missives.And so to each other, and to the old familiar place of their youth cling all their sympathies and affections, not less strong perhaps because they are so few.The blades of grass on all the Butler estates are outnumbered by the tears poured out in agony at the wreck that has been wrought in happy homes, and the crushing grief that has been laid on loving hearts.But, then, what business have \u201c niggers\u201d with tears?Beside, didn\u2019t Pierce Entier give them a silver dollar a-piece?which will appear in the sequel.Ynd, sad as it is, it was all necessary, because a gentleman was not able to live on the beggarly pittance of half a million, and so must needs enter into speculations which turned out adversely.HOW THEY WERE TREATED IN SAVANNAH.The negroes were brought toSavanahin small lots, as many at a time as could be conveniently taken care of, the last of them reaching the city the Friday before the sale.They were consigned jto the care of Mr.J.Bryan, Auctioneer and Negro Broker, who was to feed and keep them in condition until disposed of.Immediately on their arrival they were taken to the Race Course, and there quartered in the sheds for the accommodation of the horses and carriages of gentlemen attending the races.Into these sheds they were huddled pell-mell, without any more attention to their comfort than was necessary to prevent their becoming ill and unsalable.Each \u201c family\u201d had one or more boxes or bundles, in which were stowed such scanty articles of their clothing as were not brought into immediate requisition and their tin dishes and gourds for their food and drink.It is, perhaps, a fit tribute to large-handed munificence to say that, when tbe negro man was sold, there was no extra charge for the negro man\u2019s clothes ; they went with the man, and were nat charged in the bill.Nor is this altogether a contemptible idea, for many of them had worldly wealth, in the shape of clothing and [other valuables, to the extent of perhaps four or five dollars; and had all these been taken into the account, the sum total of the sale wouid have been increased, possibly a thousand dollars* In the North, we do not necessarily sell the harness with the horse ; why,' in the south, should the clothes go with the negro ?In these sheds were the chattels huddled together on the floor, there being no sign of bench or table.They eat and slept on the bare boards, their food being rice and beans, with occasionally a bit of bacon and corn bread.Their huge bundles were scattered over the floor, and thereon the slaves sat or reclined when not restlessly moving about, or gathered into sorrowful groups discussing the chances of their future fate.On the faces of all was an expression of heavy sorrow; some appeared to be resigned to the hard stroke of Fortune that had torn them from their homes, and were sadly trying to make the best of it ; some sat brooding moodily over their sorrows, their chins resting on their hands, their eyes staring vacantly and their bodies rocking to and fro, with a restless motion that was never stilled ; few wept, the place was too public, and the drivers too near, though some occassionaly turned aside to give way to a few quiet tears.They were dressed in every possible variety of uncouth and fantastic garb, in every style and of every imaginable color ; the texture of the gar ments was in all sases coarse, most of the men being clothed in the rough cloth that is made,; expressly for the slaves.The dresses assumed by the negro minstrels, when they give imitations of plantation character, are by no means exaggerated ; they are instead, Weak and »n-abie to come up to the origin»!.There was every variety of hat, with every imaginable slouch : and there was every cut and style of coat and pantaloons, made with every conceivable ingenuity of misfit, and tossed on with a general appearance of perfect looseness, that is perfectly indescribable except to say that a Southern Negro always looks as if he could shake his clothes off without taking his hands out of his pockets.The women, true to the feminine instinct, had made, in almost every case, some attempt at finery.All wore gorgeous turbans, generally manufactured in an instant out ot a gay-colored handkerchief by a sadden and graceful twist of the fingers ; though there was occasionally a more elaborate turban, a turban complex and mysterious got up with care and ornamented with beads or bright bits of ribbons.Their dresses were mostly coarse stuff, though there were some of gaudy calicoes; a few had earrings, and one possessed the treasure of a string of yellow and blue beads.The little children were always better and more particularly dressed than the older ones, the parental pride coming out in the shape of a yellow cap pointed like a mitre or a jacket with a strip of red broad cloth round the bottom.The children were of all sizes, the youngest being fitteen days old.The babies were generally good-natured, though when one would set up a yell the complaint soon attacked the other, and a full chorus would be the result.A young negro baby looks like an animated bit of india-rubber, and has wonderful powers ot suction.They were very prevalent in the long show rooms where the stock was all congregated the day of the sale, and those that were old enough to have defined ideas of locomotion were perpetually crawling away from their mothers, and getting under the feet of visitors.They have a passion for climbing, and made strenuus exertions to scale the legs of people who didn\u2019t belong to them ; if a man stood still tor a minute, he was certain to have a baby hanging to each leg\u2014like a crab.They didn't object to being knocked down, and rolled, or being pitched across the room or any trifle of that sort ; but it seemed to disconcert them to step on their fingers.The slaves remained at the race-course, some of them for more than a week and ail of them for four days before the sale.They were brought thus early that buyers who desired to inspect them might enjoy the privilege, although none of them were sold at private sale.For these preliminary days their shed was constantly visited by speculators.The negroes were examined with little consideration as if they had been brutes indeed ; the buyers pulling their mouths open to see their teeth, pinching their limbs to find how muscular they were, walking them up and down to detect any sign of lameness, making them stoop and bend in different ways that they might be certain there was no concealed rupture or wound ; and in addition to all this treatment, asking them scores of questions relative to their qualifications and accomplishments.All these humiliations were submitted to without a murmur, and in some instances with good-natured cheerfulness\u2014where the slave liked the appearance of the proposed buyer, and fancied that he might prove a kind \u2018mas\u2019r.\u2019 The following curiously sad scene is the type of a score of others that were there enacted :\u2014 ' Elisha,\u2019 chattel No.5 in the catalogue, had taken a fancy to a benevolent looking middle-aged gentleman, who was inspecting the stock, and thus used his powers of peruasion to induce the benevolent man to purchase him, with his wife, boy and girl, Molly, Israel and 13av-anab, chatties Nos.6, 7 and 8.The earnestness with which the poor fellow pressed his suit, knowing as he did, that perhaps the hap piness of his whole life depended on his success, was interesting, and the arguments he used were most pathetic.He made no appeal to the feelings of the buyer ; he rested no hope on his charity and kindness, but only strove to show how well worth his dollars were the bone and blood he was entreating him to buy.\u2018Look at me, Mas\u2019r ; am prime rice planter sho\u2019 you wont find a better man den me ; no better on the whole plantation;not a bit oldyet; do mo\u2019 work den ever ; do carpenter work, too, little; better buy me, Mas\u2019r ; I\u2019se be a good servant, Mas\u2019r.Molly, too, my wife, Sa, fus rate rice hand; mos as good as me.Stab\u2019 out yer, Molly and let the gen\u2019ltn\u2019n see.Molly advances, with her hands crossed ,on her bosom, and makes a quick short curtsey, and stands mate, looking appealingly in the benevolent man\u2019s face.But Elisha talks all the faster.\u2018Show Mas\u2019r yer arm Molly\u2014good arm dat Mas'r\u2014She do a heap o, work mo\u2019 with dat arm yet.Let good Mas\u2019r see yer teeth Molly\u2014see dat mas\u2019r, teeth all reglar, all good\u2014she\u2019m young gal yet.Come out yer Israel, walk aroun\u2019 an\u2019 let the gen\u2019lm\u2019n see how spry you be\u2019\u2014 Then, pointing to the three year-old girl who stood with her chubby hand to her month holding on to her mother\u2019s dress, and uncertain what to made of the strange scene.\u2018Little Vardy\u2019s cn\u2019y a chile yet ; make prime gal:by-ane-by.Better buy us mas\u2019r; we\u2019m fus' rate bargain\u2019\u2014and so on.But the benevolent gentleman found where he could drive a closer bargain, and so bought somebody else.Similar scenes were transacting all the while on every side\u2014 showing off every muscle and sinew to the very best advantage, not with the excusacle pride of other parents, to make them them the more desirable in the eyes of the man buyer;\tthe ether, children excusing and mitigating the age and inability of parents that they might be more marketable and fall, it possible into kind hands.Not unfrequently these representations if borne out by the facts, secure a purchase.The women never spoke to the white men unless spoken to, and then made the confetrence as short as possible.And not one of them all, during the whole time they were thus exposed to the rude questions of vulgar men spoke the first unwomanly or indelicate word, or conducted herself in any regard otherwise than as a modest woman should do ; their conversation and demeanor were quite as unexceptionable as they would have been had they been the highest ladies in the land, and through all the insults to which they were subjected they conducted themselves with the most perfect decorum and self-res -pect.The sentiment of the subjoined characteristic dialogue was heard more than once repeated : \u2018¦Well, Colonel, I seen you looking sharp at shoemaker Bill\u2019s Sally.Going to buy her ?\u201d _ \u2018 Well, Major, f think not.Sally\u2019s a good, big, strapping gal, and can do a heap o\u2019 work ; but it\u2019s fiye years since she had any chiidren.She\u2019s done breeding I reckon.\u2019 In the intervals of more active labor, the discussion of the reopening of the slave trade was commenced, and the opinion seemed general-lyto prevail that the reestablishment of the said trade is a consummation devoutly to be wished, and one red-faced Major or General or Corporal clenched his remarks with the emphatic assertion \u2018 We'll have all the niggers in Africa over here in three years\u2014we won\u2019t leave enough for S66Q.THE SALE.The Race Course at Savannah is situated at about three miles from the city, in a pleasant spot, nearly surrounded by woods.As it rained violently during the two days of the sale, the place was only accessible by carriages, and the result was that few attended but actual buyers, who had come from long distances, and could not afford to lose the opportunity.If the ®ffa1*' had come off in Yankee land there would have been a dozen omnibuses running constantly between the city and the Race Course, and some speculator would have bagged a nice little sum ot money by the operation.But nothing of the kind was thought of here, and the only result was to the livery stables, the owners of which had sufficient Yankeeism to charge double aud treble prices.f he conveniences for getting to the ground were so limited that there were not enough buyers to warrant the opening of the sale for an hour or two after the advertised time They dropped in, however, a few at a time, and things began to look more encouragingly for the The negroes looked more uncomfortable than ever, the close confinement indoors for a number ot days, and the drizzly unpleasant weather began to tell on their condition.Thev moved shout more listlessly and were fast losing what of activity and springiness they had at first.This morning they were gathered into the long room of the building erected as the \u201c Grand Stand'\u2019 of the Course, that they might be immediately under the eye of the buyers.The room was about a hundred ieet long by twenty wide, and here in were crowded the negroes, with much ot their baggage, awaiting their respective calls to step upon the block and bo sold to the highest bidder.This morning Mr.Pierce Butler appeared among his peopie speak-to each one, and being recognized witn seem-ing ^pleasure by all.The men obsequiously pulled off their hats and made that indescribable sliding hitch with the foot, that passes with a negro for a bow ; and the women eacn dropped the quick curtesy which they seldom vouchsafe to any other than their legitimate master or mistress.Occasionally to a very old or iavorite servant, Mr.Butler would extend his daintly gloved hand, which mark of condescension was instantly bailed with grins of delight from all the sable witnesses.The room in which the sale actually took place immediately adjoined the room of the negroes and communicated with it by two large doors.The sale room was open to the air on one side commanding a view to the entire Course.A small platform was raised up about two feet and a half high, on which were placed the desks ot the entry clerks, leaving room in front of them for the Auctioneer and the goods.At about 11 o\u2019clock the business men took their places and anounced that the sale would begin.Mr.Bryan the negro broker, is a dapper little man wearing spectacles, and a yatctnng hat, sharp and sudden in his movements, and perhaps the least bit in the world officious\u2014as earnest in his language as he could be without actual swearing, though acting much as if he would like to swear a little at the critical moments.Mr.Bryan did not sell the goods, he merely suprintended the operation, saw that the entry clearks did there duty properly.The auctioneer proper was a Mr.Walsh, who deserves a word of description.In personal appearance he is the very opposite of Mr.Bryan, being careless iu his dress instead of scrupulous, a man instead of a little one, a fat man instead of a lean one, and a good natnred man instead of a fierce one.He is a rollicking old boy with an eye ever on the lookout, and that never lets a bidding nod escape, him a hearty word for every bidder whs cares for it, aud a plenty of jokes to let off when the buisness gets a little slack.Mr.Walsh has a florid complexion.not more so perhaps than is becoming, and possibly not more than is natural in a whisky country.Not only is his face red, but some blisters on the skin in spots, giving him a peely look\u2014making his face all in all, the peeliness and the redness combined look much as if he had been boiled ¦ in the same pot with a red cabbage.Mr.Walsh mounted the stand and announced the terms ot the sale.1 One third cash, the remainder payable in two equal annual instal-\u2018 meats, bearing interest from the day of the sale to be secured by approved ^mortgage and personal security, or approved aceep lances on cavannah, Ga., or Charleston, S.O.Purchasers to pay for papers.\u2019 The htilers, who were present to the number of about two hundred clustered around the platform; while the negroes who were not likely to be immediately wanted gathered into sad groups in the back ground to watch the progress of .the selling in which they were so sorrowfully interested.The wind howled outside.end through the open side ofthe building the driving rain came pouring in ; the bar down stairs ceased for a short time its brisk trade ; the buyers lit fresh cigars, got ready their catalogues and pencils, and the first lot of human chattels are led upon the stand, by a sleek mulatto, himself a slave, aud who seems to regard the selling of his brethren, in which he so (glibly assists, as a capital joke.It had been announced that the negroes would be sold in \u2018families,\u2019 that is to say, a man would not be parted from his wife, or a mother from a very young child.There is perhaps as much policy as humanity in this arrangement, fur thereby many aged and unserviceaole people are disposed ot, who, otherwise wouid not find a ready sa e.\tJ The first family brought out were announced on the catalogue as Name.I George.2\tSue.3\tGeorge 4\tHarry.Remarks.>27-Prime Cotton Plants .26-Prime Rice Planter.\u2022 6-Boy\tChild.¦ \u2022 2-Boy\tChild.manner of baying was\tannounced\tto I bidding a certain price apiece for the whole k I bus George aud his family were started at $3' and were finally sold at $600 each, being $; 400 for the tour.To get an idea of tbe reiati value of each one, we must suppose Georj worth $1,200, Sue worth $900, Little Geor worth $200, and Harry worth $100.Uwin however to some misapprehension on the pa of buyer as to tbe manner of bidding, he d not take tbe family at this figure, and they we pat up and sold again, on tbe second day,whi they brought $620 each, or $2,480 tor t whole\u2014an advance of $80 over the fir sale.It seems as if every shade of character cap hie of being implicated in the sale of hnm flesh and blood, ^was represented amoung t buyers.The Georgia fast young man, wiih 1 pantaloons tucked into his boots, his velvet c jauntily dragged over to one side, his cheek f of tobacco, which he bites f'rum a large pli that resembles more than anything else, an a bit of a rusty waggon tire, aud who is altogi her an animal of quite a different breed frt your New York fast man, was there.His reai revolver or his convenient knife were ready i use in case ot a heated argument.White ne clothed, gold-spectacled and silvered old m were there, resembling in appearance that nu ious breed of sanctimonious deacons we ha at the North,who are perpetually leaving doi ments at your door that you never read a tbe business of whose mendicant life it is eu nally to solicit subscriptions for charitable as= ciation of which they are treasurers These ol try with quite steps and suddued voice mor carefully about among the live stock, ignorii as a general rule, the men, but torméntiuB t women with questions which, when accident* ly overheard by the disinterested spBctat, bred in that spectator\u2019s mind an almost irres tibie desire to knock somebody down A then all imaginable varieties of rough bad woods rowdies, who began the day in a dispi ted manner, but who as the houfs progress and their practice at bur inceas became very prolific in results, waxed loud and talkier and more violent, and ad ed a characteristic feature to the asseu UimlV Th°S?0f/°Ur reader3 who have re Uncle- Tom and who has not ?\u2014will reme: driL VeCU lar feeUngs.degree, the slai driver and woman-whipper.That the chan III?\u201c\u201ca °^er-drawn or too highly colon there is abundant testimony.Witness the si joined dialogue : A party of men were conve mg on the fruitful subject ot managing refri tory t niggers [ some were for whipping, so recommending branding, one or two adfécat othermodes of torture, but One huge brute a man, who had not taken an active rait in t discussion, save to assent with approving u to any unusually barbarous proposition, atk broke his silence by saying, in an oracular wi You may say what you like about mauau, mggers ; I\u2019m aunver myself, and I\u2019ve had so, experience, and I ougbt to know.Ybu ' manage ordinary niggers by lickin\u2019 \u2019em a whn11 ?taSte °f the 1104 iroa orice iu a wh Whw tbej « estra, ugly\tm ilONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMERCIAL «ALETTEi MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1859, -^^.¦-,1»,.i M -\u2014-\u2014\u2014.- , lets himself up against me, I can\u2019t never have any patience with him.I just get mylpistol and ghoot him right down, and that\u2019s the best way.\u2019 and his remarks were lis ened to with attention, and his assertions assented to by more than one in the knot of listners.But all this time the gale is going on, and the merry Mr.Walsh, with many a quip and a jest, was beguiling the time when the bidding was slow.The expression of all who stepped on the block was always the same and told of more anguish than it is in the power of words to express.Blighted home, crushed hopes and broken hearts was the sad story to be read on all the anxious faces.Some of them regarded the sale with perfect indifference, never making a motion save to turn from one side to the other at the word of the Dapper Mr.Bryan, thatall the crowd might have a fair view .of their proportions, and then when the sale was accomplished, stepping down from the block without caring abouttheir happiness in his hands.Others again, strained their eyes with eager glances from one buyer to another as the bidding wentoq, trying with earnest attention to follow the rapid voice or the auctioneer.Sometimes, one only would be bidding for the same chattel, all the others having resigned the contest, and then the poor creature on the block, conceiving an instantaneous preference for one of the buyers over the other, would regard the rivalry with the intesest interest, the expression of his face changing into a half smile of joy if the favourite buyer perse-veren unto the end and secured the property and settling down into a look of hopeless des-piar if the other won the victory.daphney\u2019s baby.The family of Drimus, plantation carpenter, consisting of Daphney his wife, with her young babe, and Dido, a girl of three years old, were reached in due course of time.Daphney had a large shawl, which she kept carefully wrapped round her infant and herself.This unusual proceeding attracted much attention, and provoked many remarks, such as these; 1 What do you keep your nigger covered up for?Pull off her blanket.\u2019 \u2018What\u2019s the matter with the gal?Has she got the headache?\u2019 \u2018What\u2019s the fault of the gal?Ain\u2019t she sound ?Pull of her rags and let us see her.\u2018 Who\u2019s going to bid on that nigger, if you keep her covered up.Let us see her face.\u2019 And a loud chorus of similar remarks, emphasized with loud profanity, and mingled with sayings too indecent and obscene to be even hinted at here, went up from the crowd of chivalrous Southern gentlemen.At last the auctioneer obtained a hearing long enough to explain that there was no attempt to practice any deception in the case\u2014the parties were not to be wronged in any way ; he had no desire to palm off on them an inferior article but the truth of the matter was that Daphney had been confined only fifteen days ago, and he though\"! that on that account she was entitled to the slight indulgence of a blanket, to keep from herself and child the chill air and driving rain.Will your lady readers look at the circumstances of this case.The day was the secoud of March, Daphney\u2019s baby was born into the world on St.Valentine\u2019s happy day, the 14th of February.Since her confinement, Daphney had travelled from the plantations to Savannah, where she had been kept for six days.On the sixth or seventh day after her sickness, she had left her bed, taken a railroad journey across the country to the shambles, was then exposed for six days to the questionings and insults of the negro speculators, and then, on the fifteenth day after her confinement, was put up on the block with her new born baby in her arms and was sold to the highest bidder.It was very comsiderate in Daphney to be sick before the sale, for her wailing babe was worth to Mr.Butler all of a hundred dollars.The family was sold for 5>625 apiece, or $2,500 for the four.BOB AND MAKY.This was a couple not quite a year married and were down in the catalogue as \u201cprime.1 They had no children yet; Mary with a reprehensible lack of that tender interest in Mr.But-tler\u2019s affairs that had not been exhibited in so eminent a degree by Daphney, had disappointed that worthy man\u2019s expectations, and the baby as yet was not.But both Bob and Mary sold for $1,135 a piece for all that.In another instance, Margaret, the wife of Doctor George, who was confined on February 16, though the name of herself and family were inserted in the catalogue, did not come to the sale ; and, consequently, they were not disposed of at all.As Margaret\u2019s baby was fully four days old at the time she was required to start on her journey to Savannah, we can only look at her refusal to go as a most culpable instance of perversity.Margaret should be whipped and branded, and otherwise convinced of her great sin in thus disappointing the reasonable expectations of so kind a master.But Mr.Butler bore with her in a truly Christian spirit, and uttered no reproach\u2014in public at least.\u2014 It was the more unkind of Margaret, too, be cause there were six in the family who would have brought, probably, $4,000, and all were detained from the sale by the contumacy of misguided Margaret.While on the subject of babies, it may be mentioned that Amity, chartel No.316, wile of Prince, chattel No.315, had testified her earnest desire to contribute all in her power to the worldly wealth of her master by bringing into the world at one time chatties No.31?and 318, being a fine pair of twin boys, just a year old.It is not in evidence that Amity received any testimonial of his appreciating her good behavior on this occasion, but it is certain that she brought a great price, the four, Prince, Amity, aud the iwins selling for $670 a piece, being a total of $2,680.Many other babies, of all ages of babyhood, were sold, but there was nothing particularly interesting about them.There were some thirty babies in the lot ; they _are esteemed worth to the master a hundred dollars the day they are born, and to increase in value at the rate of a hundred dollars a year till they are sixteen or seventeen years old, at which age they bring the best prices.THE LOVE STORY OF JEFFREY AND DORCAS.Jeffrey, chattel No.319, marked as a \u2018 prime cotton hand,\u2019 aged 23 years, was put up.Jeffrey being a likely lad, the competition was high.The first bid was $1,100, and he was finally sold for $1,310.Jeffrey was sold alone; he had no incumberance in the shape of an aged father or mother, who must necessarily be sold with him ; nor had he any children, for Jeffrey was not married.But Jeffrey, chattel No.319, being human in his affections, had dared to cherish a love for Dorcas, and Dorcas not having the fear of her master before her eye, had given her heart to Jeffrey.Whether what followed was a just retribution on Jeffrey and Dorcas, for daring to take such liberties with their master\u2019s property as to exchange hearts, or whether it only goes to prove with black as with white the saying holds, that \u2018the course of true love never did run smooth,\u2019 cannot now be told.Certain it is that these two lovers were net to realize the consummation of their hopes in happy wedmek.Jeffrey and Dorcas had told their love s, had exchanged their simple vows and were betrothed, each to the other as dear, and each by the other as fondly loved, as though their skins had been of fairer color.And who shall say that in the sight of Heaven and all holy angels, those two humble hearts were not as closely wedded as any two of the prouder race that call themselves no slaves.Be that as it may, Jeffrey was sold.He finds out his new master; and, hat in hand, the big tears standing in his eyes, and his voice trembling with emotion, he stands before that master and tells his simple story, praying that his betrothed may be bought with him.Though bis voice trembles, there is no embarrassment in his manner; his fears have killed all the bashfulness that would naturally attend such a recital to a stranger, and before unsympathising witnesses ; he feels that he is pleading for the happiness of her he loves, as well as for his own, and bis tale is told in a frank and manly way.\u2018I loves Dorcas, young mas\u2019r, I loves her well an\u2019 true ; she says she loves me, and I know she does; de good Lord knows I loves her better than I loves any one in de wide world\u2014never can love another woman half so well.Please buy Dorcas, young mas\u2019r.We loves each other a heap\u2014do, really, true, mas\u2019r.\u2019 Jeffrey then remembers that no loves and hopes of his are to enter into the bargain at all, but in the earnestness of his love he has forgotten to base his plea on other ground till now, when he bethinks him and continues, with his voice not trembling now, save with eagerness to prove how worthy of many dollars is the maiden of his heart.\u2018Young mas\u2019r, Dorcas prime woman\u2014A I woman, Sa.Tall gal, Sir ; long arms, strong and healthy, and can do a heap of work in a day.She is one of the best rice hands on de whole plantation ; worth $1,200 easy mas\u2019r, an\u2019 fus\u2019-rate bargain at that.\u2019 The man seems touched by Jeffry\u2019s last remarks and bids him fetch out his \u2018gal, and let\u2019s see what she looks like.\u2019 Jeff ey goes into the long room and presently returns with Dorcas, looking very sad and self-possessed, without a particle of embarrassment at the trying position in which is placed.She ma -es the accustomed courtesy, aud stands meekly with her hands clasped across her bos-withTcrhifaV16 result' Ttle buyer regards her that the \u201c\t1 rp6\u2019 an7 and 1858, Das been at the average rate of £11 per mile per week upon the whole dist.nce.as opened.In regard to the Through Traffic, the Directors can see no reason for doubling the accuracy of tbe original calculations.The vast trade of the V\\ est has greatly increased during the last few years, as likewise tbe exports and imports and the population of the Province of Canada.A regular line of steam packets between Quebec aud Portland aud Europe, shortly to form a weekly commuuication, has beeu established.The Grand Trunk will thus form tbe best route to the Western States of America and the Red River settlement of the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company, and ultimately to British Columbia.At the close of this year, when the junction between the Grand Trunk and the various railways in the state of Michigan has been effected at Detroit, the advantages tffered by the Grand Trunk for the conveyance of the Western pro duce tothe Eastern ports, a distance of 8(10 miles, without break or guage, must attract to itself a large share of this traffic ; and wittl yiew of forming an opinion of its extent, the directois have examined the gross revenue actually obtained on the four principal Hues, which have hitherto transported a large proportion ot it, and it appears that, taking the total receipts during the two yeai s 1857 and 1853, tbe latter being one of great commercial stagnation, the average amount received per mile p*rweek has been ; on the Michigtn Central, £31 4s.; on the Great Western of Canada, £32 6s.; on the New York and Erie, £16 10s.; and tbe New York Central, £49 I63.; the average on these four lines exceed-£40 per mile per week.In addit on to a share of this vast trade, to obtain which tbe Grand Trunk is in a most favourable position, it will derive additional traffic from the produce brought by the Lake navigation, aod i.tercepted at Sarnia, where ample provision will be made for its reception and transport.With these facts before them the Directors have every confidence that the very moderate estimate of £30 per mile on the Western, and £20 on tbe Eastern half, m-king an average, on the whole line of £25 per mile per week, from tbe local and through traffic combined will be realised, and also that tbe working expenses under these circumstances will not exceed 50 per cent, of the receipts.On the portion of the line, west of Toronto, already opened, the local receipts for the last few months have exceeded £20 per mile per week, and the working expenses have been less than 50 per cent.Assuming that tbe total capital on which interest will have to be paid may in round numbers be £10,000,000, the result will be as follows:\u2014 £25 per mile per week on 1,057 miles.£1,374,100 50 per cent, for working expenses.\t687,050 SUBSIDIES TO STEAM LINES.THE DERBY GOVERNMENT\u2014THE GALWAY LINE\u2014THE OUNARDERS\u2014MONTREAL\tOCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.Money Article of London Times.A number of letters have been received with regard to the suusidy of £\"8,000.per annum, promised by Lord Derby to the Galway Steam line, containing facts which require to be laid before tbe public, and which seem imperatively to demand some explanation from tbe Government.Tbe subsidy already paid for the Ameri-cau mail service is £191,000 per annum to the Canard Company.Of course, on free-trade principles, this grant, like all of a similar character, has beeu open to strong objectious, since by tending to obstruct competition it could iu the end only injure the general growth of rapid and efficient ocean steam communication.The true plan contended for has been that every steamer should be allowed to charge whatever rate it could obtain for the carriage of letters, by which means the speediest would always be tbe best paid.But tbe eubstitutn n of such a system iu place of long-existing arrangeais of a contrary kind would at any rime have been attended with much difficulty and inconvenience, and tbe publie were, there-fure, disposed to acquiesce in tbe prevailing practice.In doing so, however, there were two especial conditions which they always kept in view.First, that grants of this description should be made only in indispensable cases, and that tbe effort should be to prepare tbe way for their gradual discontinuance; and, secondly, that tie liability to tbe exercise of favouritism should bt-corrected by a strict adherence to the rule of entering into uo contracts except such as bad been invited by public tender.Tbe point on which the Derby Cabinet are now required to satisfy tbe mercantile community as respects their arrangement with Mr.Lever is whether they have acted up to these principles.The terms and correspondence have not yet been published, and the Government may possibly be able to make out a sufficient case, but iu tbe absence of in-iormation there is a strong suspicion, which has not been diminished by a statement attributed to Mr.Lever on his recen election that be will support and Government that will support his Galway scheme, that the desire to secure a certain number of Irish votes may have exercised on the minds of the Cabinet\u2014perhaps unconsciously\u2014 some considerable influence, it is urged that the Galway hue, by its ready conuexiou at Newfoundland with i he telegraphic network of the American continent, will shorten by several days the means of intercourse as compared with any other rout-, but this advantage will cease as soon as the Atlantic cable, for which tbe Government are also offering a subsidy, shall have been efficiently laid, and meanwhile the question arises if Galway is suddenly discovered to be the best route, whether tbe Cunard Company or some even of the existing unsubsidized lines could not have contrived to adapt themselves to its advantages.The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam Company bave for nine years carried on a regular service without a subsidy, and during the last two have conveyed no less than 22,500 passengers.Yet an offer lately made by them to carry Her Majesty\u2019s mails for ocet.n postage, aud to do their work under tbe Cunard contract time was refused, and tbe directors, moreover, were informed under date the 9th of November last, that \u201c when a new postal service is about to be established by Government it is the practice to invite teaders by public advertisements, thereby affording to all parties the oppoitunity of competing for such services, provided they conform to tbe required conditions.\u201d Notbiug could have been mure officially correct or impressive than this intimation, but bow does it harmonize with present experience.Again, tbe Montreal Ocean Steamship Company have a tine of mail sieamera be ween Liverpool and tbe pons in tbe St.Lawrence, which has been established three jears, aud after April next is to perform a weekly passage from Liverpool to Quebec.They enjoy a subsidy of £800 a VO} age from tbe Canadian Governmeut, but tbe British Government pay them noibing, although carrying the British mails.What chance can they have in competing with a Galway company supported by a grant nearly four times as great ?Cf course the feeling on all these points is intensified at Liverpool, where local interests, in addition to those of tbe steam companies, may be largely affected, in Loudon, however, they are viewed with complete impartiality, and there is no desire but that the Lever Company should meet with every success that can be fairly earned.But it is not fair to crush private enterprise by bounties,and depart from the only practice that render d them tolerable, that of opening them to tbe best competitors.If the mere utile community can be satisfied that the whole question has been dealt with by tbe Governmeut ou its merits alone they will be quite teady to waive any merely technical objections, and to give to all tbe parties concerned the benefit of tbe broadest and most liberal view.STOCKS, Bane of Montreal-a-Hrs declined to 117J, and even at that price no large quantity of stock could have been sold during the week.To-day, however, holders demand 118.Bank of Montreal, New Stock.\u2014None offering.Bank of British North America.\u2014Nothing doing.Commercial Bank of Canada\u2014Nominally as quoted.City Bank.\u2014Steady, at 112], Bank of Upper Canada\u2014There has been a sudden cessation in the demand ; and there are no buyers over 89i@90.People\u2019s Bank \u2014 Has declined ; no buyers over 107], Molsons Bank.\u2014No stock in market.Montreal Mining Company\u2019s Consols.\u2014Nominal ; no late transactions.Champlain and St.Lawrence Railroad.\u2014 Sales at 115}, but only to a small extent.Grand Trunk Railroad.\u2014Sales at 28 ; but there is now no stock in market.Great Western of Canada.\u2014 Nothing doing.Montreal Telegraph Company Stock \u2014 No late sales.Montreal City Gas Company\u2014Holders firm at 110 ; buyers at 106.Government Derrntures.\u2014None in market.Consolidated Municipal Loan Fund Debentures\u2014Buyers at 94 ; sellers at 94], In other Stocks.\u2014Nothing to report.Exchange\u2014As quoted.Deduct rent on Portland section .£687,050 73,000 Leaving a net profit.£614,050 or more than sufficient to pay 6 per cent, on the whole debenture and share capital of the company.Under these circumstances, the London Directors, iu offering, without reserve, their views on the position of the Railway, feel that the Board have adopted the best and most equitable mode of raising the necessary funds by the ptoposed issue of £1,111,500 Second Preference Debentures, which, with the £2,000,000 of First Preference already issued, assume the position originally occupied by the Provincial Debentures of £3,111,500.SciEsraufj, Reported for the Montreal Herald.BY MONTREAL LINE.Office, St.Sacrament Street.BOSTON MARKETS.from T.D.Heath field\u2019s Circular.FRUIT\u2014In Malaga Raisins there have been further small sales at $2 40 and $2 80 if box, 4 mos, for bunch muscatel and layers.In Sicily green Fruit, the cargo ot the Ida from Palermo, 2,720 boxes Oranges and 700 boxes Lemons, soldat $2,37[ ^ box, 60 days; the caigo of Bounding Billow, from Messina, comprising 5,5p0 boxes Granges and 1,000 boxes Lemons ai $2.50 ; and the cargo of the Fruiter, from Messina, comprising 3,200 boxes Oranges and 600 boxes Lemons at $2,50/ai$2,62] ÿ1 bn, 60 days.MOLASSES\u2014There is a firmer feeling for this article and prices have an upward tendency with very small stock of prime quality.Sales of sweet Cuba at 25c ; Trinidad at 30c ; and Cienfuegos moscovado at 31c if gal, 6mos.In our sour Cuba we learn of no further transactions.By auction, 50 hhds old muscovado at 22} (ft) 23c, 4 mos ; 110 bbls Texas at 31®35c gal, cash ; 200 bbls do do at 32c if gal, 4 mos.TALLOW\u2014There have been further sales of rendered at 10]c ; and rough ranges from 7jc /®8c ÿ1 lb, cash.TEA\u2014Tbe market for Teas is very firm, with a steady demand from the trade at full prices NEW YORK MARKETS.\u2014April 2.Flour\u2014Receipts dull and lower ; sales 3,500 bbls; $5,20t5)$5,60 ; Superfine State $5,65 (ci) $5,80 ; Choice do $6,15/a>$6,65c ; Extra State $6,25/@$6,70c ; common to good Extra Western $6,65/@$6,75c ; do Round Hoop Ohio.Canadian flour quiet ; $6,50t@$7,80 ; Extra Rye Floar firm $3,70tS)$4,50.Wheat dull and drooping ; sales small.Rye dull.Corn very dull ; sales small ; mixed Western nominal, 89c.Oats lower and dull ; 55t5)61c.Beef steady.Stocks firmer and rather better.Money\u2014No changes either in rates, demand, or supply.Sterliug Exchange\u2014Moderate business 109] f5)109}c.îSttswess Bottera.FROM AN AGENT.Mr.Wm.Bogle,\u2014Sir ; Enclosed you will receive an account of sales of merchandize transmitted me Sept.12, 1846, and cash enclosed to balance.Be the article what it may, no one among the thousand preparations now in market, has given so general satisfaction as jours.The ladies, psrticularly, say, Bogle\u2019s Fluid stands at the head of the hair preparations.I wish you to send me another supply of both sizes, and a large quantity of circulars for dis-tnbution.Yours respectfully, WILLIAM R.PRESTON.Portsmouth, Feb.8, 1847.\tc-DC-79 Erase aiss commerce.RftQMTREAL MARKETS.Arranged by a Comm Uee of Brokers expressly lor the \u201cMontreal Herald,,\u2014John G.Binning, Secretary.MONTREAL, April 2, 1869.P U O 1> U C E .$ $ ASHES\u2014Pot.^ cwt.5 90\t5 95 Pea»i.6 40\t\t6\t45 FLOUR\u2014Canada Fine.«P bbl.\t196 lbs.5 00\t\t5\t25 Superh.ne No.2.0\t00\t&\t6\t00 Supertine No.1 United States.6 25\t(a)\t6\t50 Superfine No.1 Canadian .6\t60\t6\t75 Fancy.7 00\t0\t00 Extra Super .7 00 (S> 7 60 Double Extra.7 50\t(S>\t8\t00 Rye Flour.5 00\t(S>\t6\t10 INDIAN MEAL.r 196 lbs.None.WHEAT\u2014r 60 ft.Wheat (U.C.and U.S.White).0\t00 (S>0 00 U.C.Spring.0\t00 (aO 00 Red Winter .0\t00 ¦» 1\u2014* K> ©\u2022 \u2022 \u2022 OOOOO^OtOf CO © ©SoooSoo^ ©.-.00000000000000000© ©\u2022\u2022\u2022000000000000000000 : i; 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